I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are..

Ones teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the e….

At work people are expected to be at the beck and call of employers all the time. You have blackberries and other things, and they just don't leave y….

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the sea….

[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take….

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward..

I voted against Gerald Nabarro in my first general election, but my defiance made no difference. If you had put a Conservative rosette on a mustachio….

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly..

I find it odd that people take me seriously..

The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect..

I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods..

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer..

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of P….

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese..

I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks..

Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots..

I got fed up of listening to bollocks.

The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it heal….

It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illeg….

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?.

Sharing holiday snaps on social media is an act of arrogant vanity..